ABSTRACT
Landell-Mills article “Trends in Household Poverty and Hunger” offers a succinct prognosis for the food/poverty problem. It notes the paradox of an ample food supply in a world with over two-quarters of a billion people hungry because they lack access to food, and attributes it to “a massive failure of public policy.” Landell-Mills’ article provides a succinct summary of a position taken by a large number of ecomonists. Below I first summarize and question the central proposition of this position, that the public policy failure is a failure of growth, and then present some alternatives.
